RUHR OCCUPATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9826, 20 March 1923, Page 5

RUHR OCCUPATION

HUGE COST TO FRANCE. FRENCH EXPENDITURE, LOSS IN REPARATION IN KIND. (Per Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, March 18. The Cologne correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” quoting French official figures, shows that the occupation of the Ruhr has already cost France 100,000,000 francs, besides entailing a loss of deliveries in kind worth £837,500. France has received only 225,000 tons of fuel from the Ruhr during the occupation, whereas without the occupation France and Belgium together would have received 1,000,000 tons during the same period. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) PARIS, March 19. A letter from the Minister for Finance to the finance committees of the Senate and to the Chamber of Deputies shows that Parliament was asked to vote credits for 196,000,000 francs for expenditure in the Ruhr in the first four months of 1923, but 36,000,000 francs should be deducted as the amount which the troops sent to the Ruhr would have cost had they remained at home.

MILITARY ORGANISATIONS. - >. ‘ ■ . IN GERMANY. ::"french anxiety; ■w ■, PARIS, March, 19J ' It is understood that .the French Government is anxious regarding the power that secret military organisations have revealed recently in Germany, and has asked the British Government what measures Britain will associate herself with in order to compel Germany to respect her obligations in the matter of disarmament and to assure the functioning of the inter-Allied Mission in Germany. President Ebert and several German Ministers have gone to the Ruhr frontier to meet leading officials, industrial magnates, and trade union leaders to discuss the situation in the Ruhr. Occasional outrages continue.